The Aristocracy of Pull
The phrase is Rand’s. It refers to an economy based on patronage, log-rolling, the chain of command, and favor banks. The historian Gordon Wood says the American Revolution was so radical for its time–in fact, unprecedented–mainly because it eliminated the aristocracy of pull. Pre-revolutionary society was deferential to king, to kin, to family patriarch. Personal relationships dominated both economic and political affairs. Access to honors and offices was determined by social connection alone.
Whereas now…
- “Nearly 2,000 House of Representative staffers pulled down six-figure salaries in 2009, including 43 staffers who earned the maximum $172,500 — or more than three times the median U.S. household income.”
- “A day after Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., and ten other House members compromised on their pro-life position to deliver the necessary yes-votes to pass health care reform, the “Stupak 11” released their fiscal year 2011 earmark requests, which total more than $4.7 billion“
- The Government Pay Boom: “It turns out there really is growing inequality in America. It’s the 45% premium in pay and benefits that government workers receive over the poor saps who create wealth in the private economy.”
From WSJ
Arnold Kling fulminates:
I believe that the elites have so mistreated the American people that we should declare that a state of war exists between America and Washington.
Call it whatever you want, as long as it wakes somebody up from their dogmatic slumbers. This is getting ridiculous.
Let A Thousand Nations Bloom 
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Of course the U.S. is full of tax payer revenue sucking parasites. This is why the American republic/empire will crash.
Death to all parasites.